Oldest holocaust museum recasts lessons as 'a warning sign'

Lohamei Hagetaot, Israel

AS a teenager, Dorka Sternberg watched as Nazi officers, enraged after two youths from the underground fired a handgun at them, randomly picked 25 young men and women from a roundup in her Polish hometown, Czestochowa, lined them up against a wall and shot them dead.

"I was lucky, I suppose, because I am here," Ms Sternberg, 93, said, recalling the event last week in her small kibbutz house in a lush coastal area of northern Israel.